Freelance
Traveller

EDITOR'S NOTE: For reasons beyond our control, the cover art is NOT
correctly credited in this issue. The correct credit is to Marek
Tarnawski, and the image itself is artwork being used as promotion for
and expected to be in the forthcoming Cthonian Stars, from Wildfire LLC
and Mongoose
Publishing. The original posting of the artwork is at
http://img6.imageshack.us/i/alienruins2.jpg/, and the original
associated posting pointing to it reads

To complement the released Terofex found in another posting here is
the first environmental piece to start giving you a feel of the
atmosphere of Chthonian Stars.

On a large asteroid deep in the Kuiper Belt a small group of
prospectors searching for their 'next big score' stumble upon something
much bigger than they had ever imagined. The question is, what is inside
the large alien ruins and who built it? They may not like the answers.

We apologise for the error. The corrected information comes from
Robert Glass, Wildfire LLC line developer for Cthonian Stars, via the
individual actually credited on this issue's Table of Contents page.

The articles listed and linked above are also linked in their
appropriate sections of our website.

From the Editor

It looks like we’re starting off another issue with an apology;
although your loyal editor has been working a normal schedule, he’s
apparently not fully recovered from his hospital ordeal from late July
and last month, and much-needed sleep has been cutting into the time
that he’d normally spend putting the magazine together. Hopefully, next
month’s issue will be back on schedule.

As you’ll see in this issue,
the Fifth Imperium column has a limited remaining lifespan. We’ll be
sorry to see Shannon go, but we understand perfectly that burnout
happens, and the only way to deal with it is to get away from what
you’re burned out on, and come back to it only when you’re ready. It
does leave us with a potential gap, though, and so we’d like to hear
from anyone who thinks they’d be interested in writing two or three
pages—or more, if you like—each month, on anything Traveller that
interests you. Each offer will be considered as a regular column in
Freelance Traveller, and if we get enough offers, the “schedule” can be
relaxed so that any columnist need only write for every alternate month,
and we can alternate between columns.

We’d also like to see more
reviews—our editor has a large backlog of products to review, and really
doesn’t want to overwhelm any one issue with too many articles over his
own byline. Since he’s also going to be an occasional contributor of
material other than reviews, he’s been limiting himself to one review
per issue—but between the wealth of pre-Mongoose material, and the new
stuff coming out each month, from both Mongoose Publishing and secondary
licensees, the backlog is almost inevitably going to increase. So, pick
some of your favorites—and least favorites—and review them for us!

Finally, artwork. Up to now, Freelance Traveller has generally been a
lot of “grey” pages, with very little artwork other than the
alternate-month BurrowWolf chapters. Please help us change that, by
sending us artwork (or links to artwork) of all types, anything
Traveller, that you have the right to share.